Comparing entrepreneurs, organizational employees, and the double profile: Satisfaction with work-family balance, resources and demands
Katherina Kuschel
No 5, Serie Working Papers from Universidad del Desarrollo, School of Business and Economics
Abstract:
This study wants to question the increasingly “popular” notion that self-employment represents a solution to conflict between work and family by comparing the levels of satisfaction with work-family balance and subjective well-being among three samples: organizational employees, entrepreneurs, and the double profile. Based in the job demands-resources framework, this study compares job demands, job resources, and key personal resources among the three groups of workers. Results show that entrepreneurs experience higher levels of satisfaction with work-family balance and subjective well-being, and enjoy greater job resources and key personal resources than organizational employees. Particularly, job autonomy, work-family climate and job security (withdrawal chances) were the greater differences. Interestingly, the double profile share more similarities with the employees group than with the entrepreneurs.
Keywords: entrepreneurs; satisfaction with work family balance; subjective well-being; job resources; job demands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 M12 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2014-12, Revised 2014-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ent, nep-hap, nep-hrm and nep-mfd
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)
Downloads: (external link)
http://repositorio.udd.cl/bitstream/handle/11447/55/wp05.pdf?sequence=1 First version, 2012
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:dsr:wpaper:05
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in Serie Working Papers from Universidad del Desarrollo, School of Business and Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jean Sepulveda (jeansepulveda@udd.cl).